Technical Director Project Manager Software Architect

Avi Carmi

805-***-**** cell • ***@*****.**

HIGHLIGHTS

• A leader with the ability and initiative to make informed decisions.

• Creative and efficient solutions for challenging technical problems.

• Exceptional ability to learn new techniques and seize market opportunities.

• Over 15 years experience in cutting edge software technologies.

• Superior reasoning and analytical skills (800 of 800 in GRE).

• Excellent team management capabilities.

• Always exceeded management and client expectations.

• Consistent delivery of projects on time and below budget.

• Very thorough and attentive to details.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Technical Director- Robert Maron Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006-Present

• Technical director and architect for a major web site redesign project.

• Architected, developed & maintained mission-critical e-commerce web site.

• Architected & developed inventory tracking and management system.

• Managed web site promotion and marketing, including SEO, email campaigns, print media, merchandizing, give-a-ways, and web analytics and reporting.

• Integrated the e-commerce web site with the inventory management and e-bay store.

Executive VP Technology - Over TheNet, Camarillo, CA, 1995-2006

• Designed innovative custom software solutions and interfaces for Honda, NCR, KNX 1070 Newsradio, Royce Medical, Calendars and More, and The Wharf, to name a few.

• Designed and implemented database driven, web-based applications, several were first of their kind.

• Managed paid search marketing campaigns in Google Adwords, Yahoo/Overture & MSN.

• Analyzed data from server logs and created statistical analysis to project current search engine traffic patterns. Created competition analysis reports, rank reports, etc.

• Keyword research and real-time campaign management.

• Designed and implemented server side and client side scripting.

• Managed a team of programmers and graphic artists.

• Effectively communicated with clients to clarify and specify needs and functionality.

• Managed budgets and substantially reduced costs.

Member Technical Staff - Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA 1993-94

• Designed and developed parallel algorithms for the image understanding architecture (IUA) for ICR.

• Designed and developed algorithms for intelligent character recognition (ICR), for individual character recognition and for contextual analysis, using neural networks, expert system, and fuzzy logic techniques.

• Received high performance awards for ICR contributions.

Member Technical Staff - Hughes Missile Systems Co., Canoga Park, CA 1990-94

• Researched and developed a genetic programming system for classification. Created SGPC (Simple Genetic Programming in C).

• Developed and analyzed a simulation for scanning focal plane array (aka wide field of regard or WFOR). Implemented the system on real-time hardware.

• Designed and developed "Brilliant Pebbles" LIDAR simulation, moving target indicator (MTI) algorithms, pipelined DataCube algorithms for AutoCuer program.

• Received high performance awards for WFOR contributions.

RELATED SKILLS

• Project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Crystal, Context Driven Testing, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Feature-Driven Development (FDD), and Extreme Programming.

• Software development methodologies such as Object oriented design and programming (OOD/OOP), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Event Driven Architecture (EDA), UML, Design Patterns, and more.

• Design and implementation of highly reliable, mission critical projects.

• Web site promotions and online marketing, including search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC), email marketing, newsletter publishing, online promotions and contests, affiliate programs, online PR, merchandizing, web analytics, reporting and statistics.

• Web analytics software such as Google Analytics, Webtrends, Urchin, etc.

• In-depth understanding of click-through-rate (CTR) & ROI.

• Online reputation and brand management by monitoring various sites such as search engines, blogs, and social communities.

• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, AIR, ActionScript.

• C/C++, Java SE6, J2EE/JEE5/EJB3, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FileMaker Pro, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, AJAX

• Web frameworks such as Smarty, Symfony, CakePHP, Django, Rails, Prototype, Yahoo UI, Dojo, Google Web Toolkit, JQuery, Spring, Struts, Jboss.

• Linux/UNIX/BSD/Solaris/OS X shell/perl/awk scripting and system administration, configuration and security skills.

• Installation, configuration, customization and integration of open source applications.

• Linux server configuration, management and security (Apache, DNS, E-Mail, etc).

• Quickly and easily master new computer languages and environments.

• Applied artificial intelligence techniques (neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems, genetic programming).

EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

M.S. Computer Science

California State University, Northridge, 1994

Digital Fellow in Artificial Intelligence

Digital Equipment Corporation Business Fellowship Program, 1992

B.S. Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

California State University, Northridge, 1989

B.S. Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude

California State University, Northridge, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

"The Donut Problem: Scalability and Generalization in Genetic Programming" In Kenneth E. Kinnear, Jr., editor, Advances in Genetic Programming, chapter 7, pages 143--176. MIT Press, 1994.

"The Unique Implications of Brood Selection for Genetic Programming" In Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE, 1994.

"The Donut Problem II: A Comparative Performance of Genetic Programming and Neural Networks" Thesis (M.S.) – California State University, Northridge, 1994.

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